Cash-controlling apparatus.



PATEN'I'ED JUNE 21, 1904.

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CASH CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 21, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CASH-CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,025 dated June 21,1904.

- Application filed November 3, 1902. Serial No. 129,916. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD SCHNEIDER and WALTER SCHNEIDER, citizens ofthe Empire of Germany, residing at Danzig, in the apparatus speciallysuitable for paying wages and similar purposes; and the objects of ourinvention are, first, to provide a plurality of key-levers in parallelvertical planes and arranged in a series; second, to provide a-pluralityof vertical cylinders in said parallel planes for receiving the varioussorts of coins and arranged in a series; third, to provide a pluralityof horizontal slides in said parallel planes and arranged for throwingthe lowermost coins out of said cylinders; fourth, to provide a chutefor collecting the coins thrown out and conducting them to a wages-bagor other receptacle; fifth, to provide an endless paper band and meansfor feeding same; sixth, to provide a plurality of type-levers forprinting off the respective figures on said paper band; seventh, to soconnect said printing-levers with said key-levers and said hori-. zontalslides that on moving either key-lever not only the respective coin isthrown out, but also the corresponding figure is printed on said paperband, and, eighth, to afford facilities for noting the number of thewagesbag or other receptacle on said paper band. We attain these objectsby the mechanism illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a cash-com trollingapparatusaccording to our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig.3 is a front elevation of the same on an enlarged scale, part of thefront casing-wall being removed to show the mechanism proper. Fig. 4 isa horizontal section through the same on the broken line A B in Fig. 5on an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section of the same onthe line C D in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 shows in a plan, on an enlarged scale, akeylever, a horizontal slide, a type-lever, and means for connectingthese parts, the respective vertical cylinder being shown in ahorizontal cross-section, and Fig. 7 shows in an elevation amodification of the type-lever in combination with the key-lever and thehorizontal slide.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views. The apparatus shown is arranged in accordance with theGerman monetary system; but it will be understood that it can be somodified as to suit any other money-standard.

Inside the casingZ a horizontal shaft d is secured, on which twelvetwo-armed key-levers a a are mounted to rock. The upper arm of eachkey-lever a projects through a slot o of the casing Z and is therebyguided. The upper arm carries a key-plate a, and the lower arm ispivotally connected with a bent two-armed lever c by means of a rod 6.On the rear side of the casing Z a series of eleven verticalcoin-cylinders 1" 1 r r r 1 1 1' r are arranged in the same verticalparallel planes as eleven of the key-levers a a. In the said planes arealso arranged eleven horizontal slides 11. (See Fig. 6.) The front endof each slide is provided witha slot 6 through whichthe end of the upperarm of the respective bent two-armed lever 0 projects. Thereby the slidec' is obliged to partake in the movement of the lever 0, and hence also,in that of the key-lever a. I i The rear end of the slide z is widenedand curved to the periphery of the coins in the respectivecoin-cylinder, (r in Fig. 6.) It is also cut out at z" from below, so asto form a shoulder f. This end of the slide i can pass through asuitable slot Z of the cylinder,

sloto in the casing Z is made so long that on moving the respectivekey-plate a/ downward in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 5 the rearend of the slide 2' passes quite to the external periphery of thecoin-cylinder r on the rear side, so as to entirely throw out the low-Too ermost coin. The latter falls down the collecting-chute m andthrough the tunnel it into the wages-bag g or other receptacle. Beneaththe bottomof each coin-cylinder a detent m is arranged, which is hingedat m to a convenient horizontal partition-wall of the easing Z and isprovided on its free end with a vertical nose m Normally the detent ispressed upward by a helical spring y, so that its nose m closes the slotZ and prevents the .lowermost coin from passing out of the cylinder 1'.The detent m is provided near its axis with a projection m, againstwhich the shoulder i of the slide 71 can strike to depress the detentagainst the action of the spring 3 when the detent will occupy aposition indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 5 and uncover the slotZ',-so that the lowermost coin can be thrown out by the slide 2'. Onreleasing the key-lever a it is returned to its initial position by aspiral spring k, attached with its other end to the wall of the casingZ. Then the detent m will again be raised by the spring y and close theslot Z.

Each coin-cylinder (r in Fig. 5) is made in two halves, of which thefront one is fastened on the casing Z, while the rear half is hinged ats to a plate a secured on the casing, so that the rear half can beturned downward. Thereby the introduction of a coin-roll into thecylinder is facilitated, whereupon the hinged cylinder-half is againclosed and secured by a lock 8, hinged to it at s. In order to enablethe operator to see at once how many coins are in the cylinders, eachcylinder is provided on the rear side with a longitudinal slot 8 and onthe front side with a slot 8 and a scale. (See Fig. 3.) On the uppermostcoin in each cylinder a plate 2 of similar shape is made to rest, whichis provided with two arms 2 and 2 projecting through the two slots 8 ands, the front arm 2' serving as an indicator to the scale. The divisionsof each scale being equal to the thicknesses of the respective coins,the operator will be enabled to read off the scale the number of thecoins contained in the cylinder.

The casing Z is on the front so shaped as to form a table a, beneathwhich two paper-rolls 0 0, Fig. 3', are mounted to turn on suitablepins. By any known feeding mechanism actuated by the key-levers a atheendless paper band 12 is fed forward from the roll 0 over a guiding-rollp and beneath the printingplate or pillow it and under a guiding-rolland over the supporting-plate n to the other roll 0, or vice versa. Thesupporting-plate n is arranged immediately below the table '0, and thelatter is provided with an aperture n, Fig. 2, to allow of the operatornoting the number of the respective wages-bag q or receptacle on theupper side of the paper 9. Around the printing-plate it twelvetype-levers 9 (see Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6) are mounted to turn on pins24', secured in a convenient manner to the casing Z. Twelve rods ff arearranged radially around the printing plate or pillow 7L and are linkedto the lower arms of the bent two-armed levers c 0, already mentionedabove, and move in straight lines toward the type-levers g. The pivots uof the type-levers g are a little above the horizontal rods f, so thatthe latter can strike against the type-levers g and cause them to turnupward and print oif their types t on the paper band 19 from below.

The bent two-armed levers 0 care mounted to turn on suitable pins 6 e,which are secured to the casing Z in any known manner. These leverstransmit the movements of the keylevers a a to theslides f f and thetype-levers g As is indicated in Fig. 2, the first coin-cylin: der 4" isdestined for the German golden coins of twenty marks each, the secondcylinder 1- for the golden coins of ten marks each, the third cylinder rfor the silver coins of five marks each, the fourth cylinder 1" for thesilver coins of three marks each, the fifth cylinder r for the silvercoins of two marks each, the sixth cylinder 4* for the silver coins ofone mark each, the seventh cylinder 0* for the silver-coins offiftypfennigs each, the eighth cylinder r for the nickel coins of tenpfennigs each, the ninth cylinder 1 for the nickel coins of fivepfennigs each, the tenth cylinder 1" forthe copper coins of two pfennigseach, and the eleventh cylinder 0 for the copper coins of one pfennigeach.

The apparatus is operated as follows: The labor to be paid may beassumed to be on the rear side and to have attached his wages-bag g tothe tunnel m, Fig. 1. Then the operator moves down the respectivekey-levers a a in correspondence with the amounts to be paid, when therespective coins are thrown out of their cylinders, and at the same timethe corresponding type-levers g g are struck against to print off theirtypes 25 t on the paper band p. To finish the printing, the operatormoves down the key-lever marked S in Fig. 2 to print off a point orother finishing-sign, and afterward he writes down on the paper in theaperture at the respective number. Of course he may first note thisnumber and then move the various key-levers a a. When in anycoincylinder all the coins have been thrown out, the plate 2 will reston the bottom of the cylinder, and owing to its thickness it willprevent the slider; from moving, so that the key-lever a will bechecked.

The bent two-armed levers c 0 may be modified, as is shown in Fig. 7,the upper arms of the levers 0 being pivotally connected with thekey-levers a by means of rods 6 and the lower arms being provided withtypes I." and serving themselves as type-levers.

Having now described our invention, that which we wish to secure byLetters Patent of the United States is In a cash controlling apparatus,the combination with a plurality of two-armed ke levers; a horizontalshaft upon which said levers are mounted so as to turn in parallelvertical planes;-a plurality of vertical coincylinders located in saidplanes and arranged in a series; two opposite slots provided in each ofsaid cylinders immediately above the bottom of the same; a plurality ofhorizontal slides also located in said planes and adapted each to enterthe slot upon one side of the respective cylinder so as to throw out acoin through the opposite slot; a plurality of spring-pressed hingeddetents located. beneath the said cylinders; projections provided uponsaid hinged detents near to the axes of same; noses also provided uponthe said hinged detents upon the free ends of the same and adapted tonormally close the last-mentioned slots of the said cylinders; shouldersprovided upon said horizontal slides and adapted; to strike against saidprojections so as to depress the detents and allow them to let the coinsbe thrown out; a plurality of check-plates resting upon the coins in thesaid coin-cylinders and adapted to check the said horizontal slidesafter all coins have been thrown out; a receptacle adapted to collectthe coins; a chute adapted to receive the coins thrown out and toconduct them into said receptacle; a printing-plate; a plurality ofstationary pins ar- I ranged in an area around said printing-plate; aplurality of type-levers mounted to turn upon said stationary pins; aplurality of horizontal rods arranged radially around said printingplate and adapted to strike against said type-levers so as to throw themupward and cause them to print ofl their types from below; means forpositively connecting said horizontal rods with said horizontal slidesand with said key-levers, and means for returning the latter to theirinitial position after they have been acted on, substantially asdescribed. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presenceof two witnesses.

RICHARD SCHNEIDER. WALTER SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

EDUARD M. GoLDBEcK, ALFRED MATTHEI.

